Adam Kamradt-Scott

Dr Adam Kamradt-Scott is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for International Security Studies, University of Sydney. He is also the Precinct Leader for the Humanities Node, at the Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity.

Dr Kamradt-Scott began his career as a Registered Nurse where he specialized in emergency care, but since completing his PhD at the Centre for Health and International Relations at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he as also worked as a political adviser to an Australian Senator as well as serving in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet where he was part of a small team tasked with revising and testing Australia's pandemic preparedness plans. In 2009 Dr Kamradt-Scott joined the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine as a research fellow on a €2.5 million grant from the European Research Council investigating how different ideas, values and belief structures shape global health policy. More recently, Dr Kamradt-Scott has also held a number of small independent grants to investigate civil-military cooperation in health security.

Dr Kamradt-Scott has written two co-authored books entitled 'The Transformation of Global Health Governance' (2014, Palgrave Macmillan) and 'Disease Diplomacy' (forthcoming with Dr Sara Davies and Dr Simon Rushton, John Hopkins University Press) and a single authored book 'Managing Global Health Security' (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan). He has also published over 20 articles and book chapters, is co-convenor of the British International Studies Association Global Health Working Group, and serves on a number of editorial boards for academic journals.

Experience

2011–present

Senior Lecturer, Centre for International Security Studies, University of Sydney